Creative Industries and Cross-Sectoral Innovation: A European Story Through Policy and Funding

Innovation and productivity in European industries

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European manufacturing industries and firm size classes. The empirical estimates are based on data from the European inno...

European Innovation Policy through the European Regional Development Fund

Innovation and Sectoral Employment

The question whether technological progress displaces employment or whether technological advance is beneficial for the level of employment has been in the core of economic dispute for over two centuries. The beneficial might be achieved by several compensation mechanisms within the economic system. In this paper we categorize these compensation mechanisms into two basic categories that reflect...

And Creative Industries

Recycling is the process by which previously used materials are utilized in producing new products. Finding natural materials for used in construction is getting more and more difficult worldwide. In order to reduce the dependent on natural aggregates (NA) in concrete making recycled aggregates (RA) from demolished structures and roads can be utilized as an alternative if tests proved it is sui...

Orchestrating Innovation with User Communities in the Creative Industries

The digital creative industries exemplify innovation processes in whichuser communities are highly involved in product and service development, bringing new ideas, and developing tools for newproduct uses and environments. We explore the role of user communities in suchco-innovation processes via four case studies of interrelations between firms and their communities. The digitization and virtu...